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There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Baron de Montesquieu

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
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Anger Men Society
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.
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Humanity Law Men
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
It is unreasonable … to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
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Defense Men Reason
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.
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May Obliged Wander
Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.
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Different States War
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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God Religion Thinking
In the matter of dress one should always keep below one’s ability.
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Dresses Matter Should
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
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Favors Given May
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.
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Highway Philosophical Reason
Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.
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Democracies Government Wisdom
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery

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